Drag racing times (long)

[Larry C. Leung]

>Subject: Re: Drag racing times (long)
>To: audi at humanspeakers.com
>Cc: JShadzi at aol.com, quattro at audifans.com, quattro-admin at audifans.com
>From: Eric_R_Kissell at whirlpool.com
>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:48:05 -0400


>Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:

>There a kid up the road with some kind of 70's Mopar (?) monster he's
>playing with... lime green... LOUD... has left some very fancy patterns
>of used runner on a few intersections around here.

>It's got a 454 in it.  He's running 13's, too.  In a car practically
>delivered by its manufacturer ready to drag race.

>Doing it in a small, relatively economical European car designed for,
>if for any kind of racing at all, rallying, is pretty cool.


More than likely, the car up the road is either a 70 - 74 Hemi Cuda or
Challenger Super Bee in the color, "Color me Gone".

The engine is actually a 426 Hemi, which, on the STREET tires of the day
made it difficult to break into the low 13's. With todays modern drag
rubber,
now it's probably child's play.

My roomate in college bought a 'Cuda with the 340 HiPo, and turned 14.0's
on STREET rubber. It too had a rather hard time hooking up. I'd bet on
today's
tires it could probably get in the high 13's without mods.

One thing to keep in mind is that '60's and early '70's Muscle Cars were
designed
to be cheap, light and Great in a STRAIGHT line. So, they're drag racing
muscle
was their goal, which is why they were so cheap and good at it. A lot of
cubes
in a relatively light car. When it came to cornering, braking and overall
ride and
quality, they really had nothing. But that wasn't the goal, now was it.

For the record, my roomie's 340 didn't handle all THAT bad.

LL - NY